Seoul and Beijing hope to start bilateral free trade talks in January, according to the Chosun Ilbo. They already agree to keep out sensitive items like agricultural produce.
The chairman of Korea's parliamentary committee on foreign affairs, trade and unification offered to resign Thursday, two days after his ruling party forced through a free trade agreement with the United States amid tear gas and physical scuffles.
The train for the South Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA) has not yet left the station. We are the passengers on board, not the tearful ones waving handkerchiefs and seeing them off. We should never have boarded this train to begin with, but now that we have stumbled aboard, we must now do all we can to ensure the train does not derail, and get off before we reach the cliff.
After President Barack Obama's commitment this month to a transpacific free trade agreement, business leaders in Europe and United States are asking for a similar initiative across the North Atlantic to spur economic growth and create jobs.
Occupy Wall Street protesters joined with a group of South Korean activists on Tuesday to rally against the so-called free trade deal between Seoul and the United States. The demonstrators rallied outside the South Korean mission in New York.
Canadian exports of asbestos to India won't be examined as part of an environmental assessment recently launched in connection with the Canada-India free trade talks, say experts—and that has some calling on the government to widen its scope.
Korea's ruling GNP’s surprise railroading of the ratification of the US FTA on Tuesday stands a strong chance of having an unfavorable impact on the administration due to its “procedural violence.”
The private sector Transatlantic Business Dialogue wants Obama and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso to agree when the two leaders meet on Monday to explore the idea of negotiating a "TransAtlantic Economic and Trade Pact."
The income levels of Korean farmers could be shaved, with the livestock industry in particular taking a severe beating following the implementation of the FTA.
Montenegro’s Economy Minister Vladimir Kavarić and his Ukrainian counterpart Andrii Klyuyev signed today in Kyiv the free trade agreement between the two states, which will enable Montenegro to resume its accession negotiations with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and join the organisation in the near future.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will reach Bali on Thursday to hold meetings with leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and attend the East Asia Summit over the weekend, but a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between India and the 10-member regional bloc remains elusive.
Business organizations on Tuesday hailed the parliamentary ratification of the Korea-U.S. free trade agreement as a major turning point in Korea’s economy and history of trade.
The governments of Mexico and five Central American countries signed in El Salvador a free trade agreement (FTA) that unifies the existing ties in one body.
The main opposition Democratic Party (DP) vowed Wednesday to boycott all parliamentary sessions in protest of the ruling party's unilateral passage of the disputed free trade agreement with the U.S.
Labor unions, farmers’ groups and progressive civic groups are threatening to stage large-scale protest rallies against the ruling Grand National Party for railroading a free trade agreement (FTA) with the U.S. through the National Assembly.
